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Avery Creek–Clawhammer Road, 4 sights is a 7.7-mile out-and-back near Wolf Ford, NC. It climbs 1,239 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 85/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,362 – 3,504 ft · steepest grade: 17%8.2 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Avery Creek Road 35.30801, -82.74507
Nearest town Wolf Ford, NC

Directions

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Avery Creek–Clawhammer Road, 4 sights

7.7 mi · ▲ 1,239 ft · 3 hr 11 min

Elevation 2,362–3,505 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Avery Creek Road · 35.30801, -82.74507

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:07 AM · sunset 7:54 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Avery Creek Road, heading NW.
  2. 100 ftTurn right, heading W.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right onto Perry Cove, heading NW.
  4. 50 ftBear left onto Avery Creek Road, heading NW.
  5. 0.4 miBear right onto Avery Creek, heading N.
  6. 0.8 miTurn right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  7. 50 ftBear right onto Avery Creek, heading NW.
  8. 450 ftTurn right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  9. 0.6 miBear left onto Twin Falls Trail, heading N.
  10. 50 ftContinue straight onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  11. 0.5 miBear left, heading E.
  12. 0.3 miBear left onto Clawhammer Road, heading NW.
  13. 0.7 miBear left, heading NW.
  14. 450 ftBear right onto Henry Branch Extension, heading NE.
  15. 0.4 miReach Clawhammer Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  16. 0.4 miBear left, heading SE.
  17. 450 ftBear right onto Clawhammer Road, heading E.
  18. 0.7 miBear right, heading SW.
  19. 0.3 miBear right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading E.
  20. 0.5 miContinue straight onto Twin Falls Trail, heading SW.
  21. 50 ftBear right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading W.
  22. 0.2 miBear left, heading NW.
  23. 0.4 miTurn left onto Avery Creek, heading S.
  24. 450 ftBear left onto Buckhorn Gap, heading S.
  25. 50 ftTurn left onto Avery Creek, heading S.
  26. 0.8 miBear left onto Avery Creek Road, heading SE.
  27. 0.4 miBear right onto Perry Cove, heading E.
  28. 50 ftTurn left onto Avery Creek Road, heading E.
  29. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
  30. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

50% dirt15% gravel35% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:07 AMSunset 7:54 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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